I needed to POST JSON formatted data to a RESTful web service using PHP earlier, so I thought I’d share my solution. There are a couple of approaches that could be taken, using the CURL extension, or file_get_contents and a … Continued
The use of HTTP methods when designing and building a RESTful web service is very important. Most developers only use the GET and POST methods offered by the HTTP specification, and for most web sites this is fine. However, there … Continued
We had to setup and run a webcam for the Q Awards red carpet earlier this week. The original plan was to have an old Axis ethernet webcam, connected to a wifi network using a Dlink bridge. After a nightmare … Continued
The world and his dog is currently looking at Twitter and eyeing up the possibilities it offers. I thought i’d jump on the bandwagon, and have a look at the Twitter API. I wanted to post to a timeline, so … Continued
Sitting in a Lifeblog debrief earlier, one thing that struck me was that others had the same problem as me regarding wanting to post to multiple blogs. It seems most would like to seperate a work blog from a personal … Continued
As you may have seen by the couple of test posts on this website, I’ve managed to get Nokia’s Lifeblog application posting entries to my blog. Lifeblog uses a flavour of the Atom protocol to handle web posting. Nokia have … Continued
Atom uses the WSSE authentication for posting and editing weblogs. Mark Pilgrim explains more about this in layman’s terms in an old XML.com article, Atom Authentication. This information is passed in an HTTP header, for example… HTTP_X_WSSE UsernameToken Username="robertprice", PasswordDigest="l7FbmWdq8gBwHgshgQ4NonjrXPA=", … Continued
One thing that is really annoying me at present, is Nokia not shipping a decent browser on the 7610 phone. I’ve found the built in web browser usable, but it does have it’s limitations. It doesn’t support file upload for … Continued
A third party I work with made a change to some web code today that managed to knock out a system I have that relies on the data served from it. The server handles content from other web applications and … Continued
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be efficient with your page size. One example of this was when we needed to put up some custom error pages for the websites at work. We were using Apache‘s ErrorDocument to return nice 404 … Continued